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Ormond Gigli – Girls in description Windows: Service Other Stories
Publisher: powerHouse, 2013
Hardback, 200 pages, English
Size: 33.6×28.9cm
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Ormond GIGLI was born in New York City in 1925 within a modest family. The photographic journey started when, still a teenager, his father offered him his first camera. Ormond GIGLI is fond of photography. After the class, he worked as an assistant for several photographers. Thanks to that he met the fashion world through Wilhela CUSHMAN, fashion editor for the Ladie’s Home Journal. He graduated from the School of Modern Photography in 1942 and served in the Navy as a photographer during World War 2. He spent some time living a bohemian life in France: “I lived the life of a penniless artist in Paris… and it was a wonderful place to be”.

His career took off in 1952. He was working at this moment for the Rapho photo agency, when a LIFE editor enlisted him to do a series of celebrity portraits in replacement of Robert CAPA. This very same year LIFE assigned Ormond GIGLI to cover the Paris fashion shows. He encountered success with one of his pictures published in the center spread of the magazine. It started a fashion photographer career of more than twenty years. Ormond GIGLI worked with the most famous magazine of his time such as Paris-Match, LIFE, Time, Collier’s and the Saturday Evening Post. He settled his studio in Manhattan in 1954. Soph

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LENOX — With explosive colors and carefully composed images, Ormond Gigli mapped out what was possible for photography in the mid-20th century. From one assignment to the next for the major magazines of the time, his sense of glamor and sophistication and his trained documentary eye crafted volumes of insightful celebrity portraits and iconic fashion shoots. But often overlooked was his more personal work, the shots he took on his travels outside the studio.

An exhibition of prints he made throughout his career brings some of those to light, along with some new perspectives on his most famous pieces. The exhibit "Untold Stories" is currently on view at Sohn Fine Art now through Sept. 20, and is a look at this artist who lived for many years in West Stockbridge until he passed away last winter.

"I always say his work is such an embodiment of that time," said Cassandra Sohn, curator and director of Sohn Fine Art, who met Gigli about eight years ago when she started representing his work. "If you want to see a snapshot of what life was like then, just look at Ormond Gigli's work."

All of the prints — some never before seen — come from the artist's collection and were chosen by Sohn and the photographer's son, Ogden.

"These prints were my father's favorites," he said.

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